Martin Scherer (* born 27 July 1972 in Marburg) is a German university professor and specialist for general practice and primary care.
[1] Since 2019 president of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (DEGAM) and since 2006 speaker of the Clinical Guidelines Committee.
In 2009, Scherer was appointed to the W2 professorship ‘Health Services Research and its Methods’ as deputy director at the Institute of Social Medicine at the University of Lübeck.
[4] Since 2011, Scherer has been Director of the Institute and Polyclinic of General Practice and Primary Care, University Medical Center Hamburg.
During the Covid pandemic, he worked on important questions regarding vaccination readiness,[22] the nocebo effect,[23] consequences for the care system[24][25][26][27] and the management of chronic diseases.
[28][29] As co-PI of the GETFEEDBACK-GP study, Scherer, together with Bernd Löwe (Principal Investigator), was able to publish a high-ranking RCT on depression screening and subsequent feedback procedures in general practice.